Company Dynamic

Norway has become the first country to become a Contracting State to a key compensation treaty covering the transport of hazardous and noxious substances (HNS) by ship.

• Norway

Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPD) said that it has executed additional long-term contracts to provide transportation services on the Midland to ECHO crude oil pipeline system.

• Pipeline
• Midland–ECHO
• Enterprise

AkzoNobel NV has completed the $3.5 million expansion of its US research and development facilities in Houston, Texas.

• AkzoNobel

BIOA has launched BIO-SA pharmaceutical grade. This new grade of material provides a USP/NF and FCC grade of bio-succinic acid manufactured under the US FDA good manufacturing practices (GMP) for food and excipients.

• BioAmber

The Paints brand by PPG Industries has introduced Black Flame (PPG1043-7), as 2018 colour of the year. Recently the Olympic brand unveiled Black Magic as its 2018 colour of the year.

• Decoration
• PPG

The European Joint Undertaking on Bio-Based Industries (BBI), consisting of representatives from the European Union and the bio-based industry, granted €25 million to “PEFerence”, a consortium of eleven companies.

• BASF

China and Pakistan will cooperate on the development of the textile and apparel sector of both countries.

• Pakistan
• China
• Textile

XPCC Caohu Industrial Park’s 2 million spindles spinning project is an assistance construction project in Xinjiang provided by Guangdong Province.

• Spindles
• Xinjiang
• XPCC
• Caohu
• Industrial

Univar, the chemical and ingredients distributor, has extended its agreement with Hallstar to cover five new countries.

• Univar
• Hallstar

Infosys is giving an average salary increment of 5 per cent to its employees in India, similar to that offered by Wipro. The revised compensation effective July is for employees in job level 6 (managers, software engineers) and below.

• Infosys

AkzoNobel NV said that its speciality chemicals business is investing more than €20 million to increase production capacity in Sweden for its Expancel product line for expandable microspheres.

• AkzoNobel

Enabling industrial companies to employ industrial internet of things (IIoT), Honeywell Process Solutions’ (HPS) Honeywell Users Group (HUG) for the Americas addresses the ongoing operational challenges.

• Honeywell

The partnership will help establish a sustainable certified and transparent supply chain of coconut oil in the Philippines and Indonesia.

• BASF

Brenntag AG has signed an agreement to acquire 100 percent shares in Wellstar Enterprises (Hong Kong) Company Limited and its 3 Chinese subsidiaries, jointly Wellstar Group.

• Brenntag

Paints & Stains brand by PPG Industries has unveiled its 2018 colour of the year: Blackhearth (MEN7080-6).

• PPG

BASF SE plans to build a new world-scale plant to produce ibuprofen in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

• BASF

PI Industries Limited (PI) has entered into an agreement with Japan’s major chemical company, Kumiai Chemical Industry Co Ltd (Kumiai), to establish a joint venture company in India.

• PI
• Agrochemicals

PPG Industries Inc (PPG) and the PPG Foundation said they have contributed $7.5 million to Carnegie Science Centre of Pittsburgh.

• PPG

PPG announced the completion of a Colourful Communities project in Milan, Italy, that helped revitalise the Villa Arconati, a historic villa in the hamlet of Castellazzo di Bollate that is the headquarters of the Fondazione Augusto Rancilio.

• PPG

BASF SE and PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) and entered exclusive negotiations to cooperate on the supply of raw materials for future battery materials production for lithium-ion batteries in Europe.

• BASF
• Nornickel
• Battery